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Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness
#7787348 - 12/21/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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December 21, 2007 - HealthDay News
Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness The two conditions often occur together, scientists note
Developmental problems involving a walnut-shaped part of the brain called the amygdala -- linked to fear, anxiety and other emotions -- may explain why mental illness and addiction often appear together, researchers say.
Many kinds of addiction -- such as those for alcohol, drugs and nicotine -- occur in people with various kinds of mental illness, including depression, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, according to background information in an American Psychological Association news release about the Indiana University study.
Two to five of every 10 anxious or depressed people, and four to eight of every 10 people with schizophrenia, biopolar disorder or antisocial personality, also have some form of addiction, according to epidemiological data.
In this study, published in the December issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, the researchers compared the behavior of adult rats whose amygdalas were surgically damaged in infancy and adult rats with intact amygdalas.
Rats with the damaged amygdalas showed less fear and caution than normal and were significantly more sensitive to cocaine after just one exposure to the drug. Rats with damaged amygdalas that received repeated cocaine injections developed "even stronger expressions of the enduring changes in behavior -- suggesting an overall hypersensitivity to the addictive process," the researchers noted.
Since both groups of rats were raised in the same controlled conditions, the damaged amygdala was the likely cause of the impaired fear behavior, as well as the heightened drug response, in the one group of rats, the study authors concluded.
In humans, disease and interactions between genetic and environmental factors can alter amygdala function or change the way it's connected to the rest of the brain during childhood and adolescence.
"Early emotional trauma, paired with a certain genetic background, may alter the early development of neural networks intrinsic to the amygdala, resulting in a cascade of brain effects and functional changes that present in adulthood as a dual-diagnosis disorder," lead author Dr. Andrew Chambers explained in a prepared statement.
More information: The (U.S.) National Alliance on Mental Illness has more about dual diagnosis of substance abuse and mental illness.
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Chemy
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#7787798 - 12/22/07 01:01 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Chemy]
#7787873 - 12/22/07 01:41 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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its so very scientific
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Chemy]
#7788062 - 12/22/07 04:59 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I thought religion was a mental illness. When will they make a pill to cure it is the question.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Eraserhead]
#7788795 - 12/22/07 12:25 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Many kinds of addiction -- such as those for alcohol, drugs and nicotine
I'm glad they included that, I forgot that alcohol and nicotine weren't drugs.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Chemy]
#7789384 - 12/22/07 03:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Chemy said: When are they going to link mental illness with organized religion?
Oh snap.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Chemy]
#7790100 - 12/22/07 06:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Chemy said: When are they going to link mental illness with organized religion?
haha 
thats what i was just wondering
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: ShroomieGirl]
#7793156 - 12/23/07 04:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Organized religion is more of a form of hypnotism/entertainment than a mental illness. I think the same applies for watching TV and consumer culture.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Divided_Sky]
#7793222 - 12/23/07 05:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Divided_Sky said: Organized religion is more of a form of hypnotism/entertainment than a mental illness. I think the same applies for watching TV and consumer culture.
Have you ever seen someone pray to NBC/Stone Phillips to destroy fags because the bible says homosexuals are bad?
There is a huge difference between entertainment and religion, religion isn't very entertaining at all, unless you're watching Fred Phelps act like a retard, and that isn't entertaining when he protests military funerals 
Dick Cheney condemns homosexuality, yet he won't condemn his daughter who is a lesbian, hypocritical religious people are always like that, it's ALWAYS different in their case.
I seriously think these people have mental illnesses that want people to suffer in a bad way for enternity, for nothing more than lifestyle choices like sexuality, drug/alcohol use and choosing to not be a parrot like they are.
Anyway, God bless you, and I can't wait for Jesus to come down and kill all the Jews and Arabs and fags, and take all us hypocrits up to heaven where we can lie and steal behind Jesus' back.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Chemy]
#7793527 - 12/23/07 07:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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There is a huge difference between entertainment and religion, religion isn't very entertaining at all, unless you're watching Fred Phelps act like a retard, and that isn't entertaining when he protests military funerals 
There is no difference between those two as none of them are responsible for people's bull shit. The most they can do is create a medium of expressing one's own inabilities to live an independent and responsible life. Holding religion and the media responsible for people's fuck ups IS a delusive, IS a form of escapism and IS (or can lead to) a mental illness itself.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7794375 - 12/24/07 12:04 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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why are ppl avoiding the actual news here?(maybe because it hits a little too close to home?)
I find it fascinating
there is a DEFINITE link between mental illness and drug use...I see it all around me everyday
not too mention the fact that I've been prone to addictive behaviour my whole life and I have MAJOR anxiety issues(which I'm dealing with) and I had early childhood trauma(and continued through my teenage years)
I remember saying over a year ago here on the shroomery that ppl with anxiety disorders are searching for an answer(which they think they find in drugs often) maybe this is the glitch which is causing the search
thx for the article(maybe we can get some discussion which actually relates to it instead of shoving it under the carpet as if it never existed)
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: Iamthewalrus]
#7794540 - 12/24/07 01:10 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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You merely described your own issues isolated to the matter of using drugs. The fact that you also use drugs is incidental. Mental illness is NOT linked to drug use.
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Re: Brain Center May Link Addiction, Mental Illness [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7794995 - 12/24/07 09:09 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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They just may be linked. It sounds like a great way to pass the buck. "Its not my choice, its a mental illness."
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